"It's a kind of greenish orange—but it seems as though it ought not to look like that color either."
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Hence it spreads throughout the tribes of Northern Europe and Asia, from Finland to Kamtchatka, and with a less intensive sway amongst the Indians of North and South America.
— from The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions by Carveth Read

The chapter headings, or contents list, which itself contains nearly five per cent of the whole letterpress, is so arranged that it omits no feature treated of in the main text.
— from Ancient China Simplified by Edward Harper Parker

You give me my way in everything; and when I say anything that I ought not to say, you do not contradict me.
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

"In glancing over the morning paper, while you and Rose were attiring yourselves for the drive, I saw among the items of news that Donald Keith is in our city.
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

But I did not begin even then, for I shuddered at the idea of not being able to climb back to the boom if I failed to get in, and to make a way back to safety I now hauled up my double line, and proceeded to tie knots all down it at intervals of about a foot, so as to have something better to grip than the bare rope.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

They are the men to whom I should attribute the imposition of names.
— from Cratylus by Plato

Adelaide, quite determined to test the magician's powers to the utmost, replied, with an air of concern, as if shocked at the idea, "Oh, no, don't do that; it is too dreadful."
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble

There is such a thing in our national life—a constant process, although often unrecognized—as social anastomosis: the intercommunication by branch of every vein and veinlet of the politico-social body, and thereby the coming into touch of lives apparently alien.
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

The present sample of records is small, and there is otherwise no evidence suggesting that the breeding schedule of this species differs from those of the other two kingbirds in Kansas.
— from The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Richard F. Johnston